#1079 · 🐦 birds
Golden-crowned Kinglet
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Goudhaan ·Regulus satrapa
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what is it?
The golden-crowned kinglet ( Regulus satrapa ) is a very small songbird.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 36,806 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 (203 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Goudhaan
- scientific name
- Regulus satrapa
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Regulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 36,806
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1823 by Hinrich Lichtenstein
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Regulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117100, Wikidata Q1063246, GBIF 2484591, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.